Singapore legislation
Section 48
Section 48
Offering or receiving bribes
(1)
If any Federal officer of customs or other person duly employed for the prevention of offences under this Act —
makes any collusive seizure or delivers up or makes any agreement to deliver up or not to seize any means of conveyance, or any goods liable to seizure;
accepts, agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain, any bribe, gratuity, recompense or reward for the neglect or non‑performance of his duty; or
conspires or connives with any person to import or export or is in any way concerned in the importation or exportation of any goods liable to customs duty or any goods prohibited to be imported or exported for the purpose of seizing any conveyance or any goods and obtaining any reward for such seizure or otherwise,every such officer or such other person so offending shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and every person who gives or offers or promises to give or procures to be given any bribe, gratuity, recompense or reward to, or makes any collusive agreement with, any such officer or person to induce him in any way to neglect his duty or to do, conceal or connive at any act whereby any of the provisions of any other written law of Malaysia relating to imports or to exports may be evaded, shall be guilty as an abettor and so punishable under this Act.
(2)
Any Federal officer of customs who is found when on duty to have in his possession any money in contravention of any departmental regulations issued in writing shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have received the money in contravention of subsection (1)(b).
(3)
If a Federal officer of customs has reasonable suspicion that another Federal officer of customs junior in rank to him has in his possession any money received in contravention of subsection (1)(b), he may search that other officer.